Management of Credit Risk : Theory and applications

Crédit : 6 ECTS
Langue du cours : anglais

Volume horaire

  • CM : 30 h

Compétences à acquérir

The key concepts pertaining to credit risk should be understood by students and a solid framework would allow an easier analysis of credit risk and its management in their future job.

Description du contenu de l'enseignement

This course is an introduction to Credit Risk in its different dimensions (Default/Recovery/Transition), starting from a description of the phenomenology of Credit Risk, the different intruments subject to credit risk to the different modelling approach both for single name or portfolio exposure. Numerous concrete examples illustrate the concepts introduced and the mathematical model are studied through exercises. The aim is to cover the broad domain of credit risk from retail products (credit card, mortgages) to sovereign credit risk, looking at the existing practicla issues that students would have to solve in their future employment either as Risk Managers, Traders, Asset Managers, Credit Risk Officer, Analysts, ... A book covering the different concepts presented in class is made available and corrected exercise are also available to the students.

Mode de contrôle des connaissances

A final exam mixing (i) questions on topic seen during the class and (ii) quantitative exercises to measure credit risk.

Pré-requis recommandés

Basic knowledge of fixed income products and interest rate notions. Basic knowledge of probability / statistics is a plus (Theorem of Total Probability, Law of Large Number, Markov Chain, Univariate distributions)

Bibliographie, lectures recommandées

Credit Risk - Pricing, Measurement, and Management - Darrelle Duffie - Princeton Universirty Press Credit Risk Modeling - David Lando Credit Risk - Tomasz Bielecki, Marek Rutkowski

Enseignant responsable

OLIVIER TOUTAIN



Année universitaire 2023 - 2024 - Fiche modifiée le : 23-03-2026 (15H06) - Sous réserve de modification.